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Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936

The Olympic Games or Olympics is an international multi-sport event taking place every four years which comprises of summer and winter games. Though the first ancient games were held in 776 B.C, the modern games started from 1896.The unity of the 5 continents is shown on the Olympic flag by five colorful intertwined rings of red, blue, green, yellow, and black, created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to represent atleast one color of the participating country’s national flag.

The 1936 Olympic Games were held in the twin Bavarian towns of Garmisch and Partenkirchen. An efficient bus service allowed 500,000 people to attend the final day's events. Alpine skiing events were included for the first time, and this led to a major controversy. The IOC, International Olympic Committee overruling the International Ski Federation, declared that ski instructors could not take part in the Olympics because they were professionals. Incensed, the Austrian and Swiss skiers boycotted the events. The dispute carried on after the Games and it was decided that skiing would not be included in the 1940 Olympics.

In Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 Olympic Games 28 Nations, 646 athletes, 80 women, 566 men, and 17 events were participated. The opening ceremony was on 06 February 1936 and closing date was 16 February 1936. Garmisch-Partenkirchen arranged in the country of the host city Germany for 1936 and candidate city was St.-Moritz.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 Official opening of the Games was done by Chancellor Adolf Hitler and lighting of the Olympic Flame by For the Winter Games, the flame was lit for the first time in 1952 in Oslo. In this Olympic Games sports played were Bobsleigh, Ice Hockey, Skating and Skiing.

Sonja Henie earned her third gold medal and Karl Schafer his second. Speed skater Ivan Ballangrud of Norway won three of the four races, including the 500m, the shortest race, and the 10,000m, the longest. Great Britain upset Canada in ice hockey, but it should be noted that ten of the twelve British players lived in Canada. In that Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 year Norway achieved good position with hard working. They got 7, 5, 3 medals respectively Gold, Silver, Bronze in that specific year.

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